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A vehicle (from Latin vehiculum) [1] is a machine designed for self-propulsion, usually to transport people, cargo, or both.The term "vehicle" typically refers to land vehicles such as human-powered vehicles (e.g. bicycles, tricycles, velomobiles), animal-powered transports (e.g. horse-drawn carriages/wagons, ox carts, dog sleds), motor vehicles (e.g. motorcycles, cars, trucks, buses, mobility ...
The clean vehicle stock includes 30.5 million flexible-fuel cars and light utility vehicles and over 6 million flex-fuel motorcycles by March 2018; [59] between 2.4 and 3.0 million neat ethanol vehicles still in use, [60] [61] out of 5.7 million ethanol only light-vehicles produced since 1979; [62] and, as of December 2012, a total of 1.69 ...
The CTC-2 chassis of an RCA CT-100 television. A chassis (US: / ˈ tʃ æ s i /, [1] UK: / ˈ ʃ æ s i /; [2] plural chassis /-i z / from French châssis) is the load-bearing framework of a manufactured object, which structurally supports the object in its construction and function.
The plural may be used to emphasise the plurality of the attribute, especially in British English but very rarely in American English: a careers advisor, a languages expert. The plural is also more common with irregular plurals for various attributions: women killers are women who kill, whereas woman killers are those who kill women.
Most languages of the world have formal means to express differences of number. One widespread distinction, found in English and many other languages, involves a simple two-way contrast between singular and plural number (car/cars, child/children, etc.). Discussion of other more elaborate systems of number appears below.
The Prius was developed by Toyota to be the "car for the 21st century"; [1] [2] it was the first mass-produced hybrid vehicle, [3] first going on sale in Japan in 1997 at all four Toyota Japan dealership chains, [3] and subsequently introduced worldwide in 2000.
A plural base title can also redirect to an article (Bookends redirects to Bookend; Faces redirects to Face). If separate primary topics are determined, add a hatnote from the plural page to the singular form (or vice versa). Sometimes, what appears to be a plural form may also be a separate word, which can influence the primary topic decision.
The first vehicles stopped in front of the shop of a hatter named Omnés, which displayed a large sign inscribed "Omnes Omnibus", a pun on his Latin-sounding surname, omnes being the male and female nominative, vocative and accusative form of the Latin adjective omnis/-e ("all"), [4] combined with omnibus, the dative plural form meaning "for ...